Deb-we-win Ge-ken-am-aan, Our Place in the Circle

A Spirit-Name for a New Generation

The term, Two-Spirit, was introduced at the third annual international LGBT Native American gathering in 1990. Elder Myra Laramee shared the name and it was quickly adopted as a spirit-name. Today, Indigenous LGBTQ and Two-Spirit are terms chosen by some Indigenous people to describe an aspect of their identity. (Photo: Original participants who were at the Basket and the Bow Gathering in Minneapolis, 1988.)